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13-letter words containing ur

  • insusurration — (obsolete) The act of whispering into something.
  • inter-assured — to make (a future event) sure; ensure: This contract assures the company's profit this month.
  • intercultural — pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures: intercultural exchanges in music and art.
  • intercurrence — intervening, as of time or events.
  • interneuronal — (neurology) Between neurons.
  • intracultural — Within a single culture.
  • intrapreneurs — Plural form of intrapreneur.
  • intratelluric — Geology. located in, taking place in, or resulting from action beneath the lithosphere.
  • ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
  • isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
  • japan current — a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
  • joint venture — business: joint enterprise
  • joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
  • journal entry — sth written in a diary
  • journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
  • jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
  • jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
  • justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
  • kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
  • lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
  • lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
  • laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
  • laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
  • laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
  • lauroyl group — the monovalent organic group C 12 H 23 O–, derived from lauric acid.
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
  • leisureliness — The property of being leisurely.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
  • libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
  • liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
  • liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
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